Tag Archives: E-levy

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has recommended to some aggrieved Ghanaians complaining about the controversial e-levy charges to change GHc 200.00 in two days to avoid being victims of the charges. He said: “ if you have GH¢200, I am sure...

It is now official that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) government when elected to office, will abolish the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy). Apexnewsgh.com It was officially announced by Mr. John Dramani Mahama, Ghana’s former President on Monday, 2...

The Deputy majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said, the Russia-Ukraine war is the more important reason the country even need E-levy. He stressed, that the call to rescue Ghanaians residing in Ukraine will come at a cost to the state...

The National Communication Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Yaw Buaben Asamoah has pointed, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has no legal authority and power to use violence to overturn the standing orders of Parliament. Mr. Asamoah...

A Development Economist with the University for Development Studies (UDS) Dr. Michael Ayamga-Adongo has cautioned the government not to take Ghanaians for granted by their way of thinking that Ghanaians do not understand the meaning of the Electronic levy charge...

Ursula Owusu Ekuful, the Communication and Digitization Minister, has said the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy) would not amount to double taxation. She disclose it during the government’s town-hall meeting at the Eastern Regional Capital – Koforidua, the Minister noted that...

Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, has said he is working out modalities to resubmit the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) to Parliament for approval. The tax E-Levy has been a controversial one since government presented its 2022 Budgets statement to the...

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has said it is confident parliament will pass the controversial e-levy this month once parliament reconvenes. In a statement, the ministry said “it is most unfortunate to note that foreign investors and market participants are on...

Mr. Kwame Pianim said Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta “hasn’t done a good job” managing the economy, According to Mr. Pianim, “He is over-borrowing and we are not getting value for money”. “This government is borrowing as if there is no...

Renowned economist and founding member of the governing New Patriotic Party, Kwame Pianim, has dismissed assertions by Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful that anyone who makes a mobile money transaction that exceeds GH¢100 is not poor. Kwame Pianim says the statement by the minister...